Santa Maria Nebaj
Municipality in El Quiché, Guatemala / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the Maya archaeological site, see Nebaj.
Santa Maria Nebaj (Spanish pronunciation: [neˈβax]; usually abbreviated to Nebaj) is a town and municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché. Santa Maria Nebaj is part of the Ixil Community, along with San Juan Cotzal and San Gaspar Chajul. Native residents speak the Mayan Ixil language.
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Santa Maria Nebaj
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Coordinates: 15°24′30″N 91°8′50″W | |
Country | Guatemala |
Department | El Quiché |
Municipality | Santa Maria Nebaj |
Government | |
• Type | Municipal |
• Mayor (2016-2020) | José Adolfo Quezada Valdez[1] (LIDER) |
Area | |
• Municipality | 215 sq mi (558 km2) |
Elevation | 6,200 ft (1,900 m) |
Population (Census 2018)[2] | |
• Municipality | 72,686 |
• Density | 340/sq mi (130/km2) |
• Urban | 31,935 |
• Ethnicities | Ixil K'iche' Ladino |
• Religions | Eastern Orthodoxy or Oriental Orthodoxy[4] Evangelicalism (then recent historically) Roman Catholicism Maya |
Climate | Cfb |
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The community is named in part for Nebaj, a pre-Columbian archaeological site of the Maya civilization.